Sunday 12th of July 2026
More Than Background Noise
Music shapes my flow, my mood, and my identity. This is why I code with it.
Your background music while you work can say a lot about you. Or maybe not at all. It's just what we have with us while we draw, code, and do every possible thing imaginable.
I've been in some kind of Lebowski mode lately, and I love listening to Radio Paradise. All the alternative, folk, jazz, and weirdness you can find there keeps me entertained the good old-fashioned way—the radio way. Fine, it's internet, but what the hell. I don't want to listen to some crappy "opinion" program, which is way too common during the hours I work.
So there you go. I just code while listening to that and my collection, which includes classical, alternative, soundtracks, and a LOT of metal. It's the loudness I love to have in my ears—letting me be partially present and partially absent while I search for the best way to do things. The way to be more efficient in everyday tasks comes from that mental state music generates. You become another version of yourself with music.
Or at least, the day doesn't feel like a slow-motion routine.
Maybe in that particular state of mind I reach while working concentrated and focused on results, there's no room for music that could distract me. I've heard awesome pieces, but every song on my playlist is there by design to keep me motivated and calm. In a certain way, you could say a playlist is also a declaration of expected behavior—and it's there to support it. The psychological helper of your own positive engine.
That's how it works for me. I could certainly find vast amounts of reasons to whine about most of them, but it's pointless. The real deal is to face that nothing is perfect. It's far from it, and it has an ugly side that we all know—some more than others, but we all know it.
I'm telling you this because far from being distracted from real-life issues and different realities, you hear them in the lyrics of every sound. And some of them are more than pop culture—they show a snapshot from the time that song was made.
Curious, right? But most are still valid today. Music is art. Art communicates that. It keeps you tuned in with people. Ultimately, it's my everlasting friend in good times and bad.
I feel a bit bugged when I see the classic bearded hipster-like image people imagine of some folks. Sometimes I'm one of them. I have a song for that...
The nice part about being with my music right now is that it keeps me in line with the most important thing: who I am. And that's all I want. I always feel that if I forget that, I'm going to lose a whole lot of what I call life in a single stroke.
Music is a big deal to me. It's a big deal for people in general. Some songs are a direct trigger that brings a good memory back to life. Others are there just to make the day feel like a normal day.
Since the beginning of time, we've been making music. In the beginning, maybe it was strong tribal percussion sounds. Or maybe they got it right from the start and were already making fusion and funk.
It's not about music itself, I tell myself every day. It's about where it takes me.
I've been in some kind of Lebowski mode lately, and I love listening to Radio Paradise. All the alternative, folk, jazz, and weirdness you can find there keeps me entertained the good old-fashioned way—the radio way. Fine, it's internet, but what the hell. I don't want to listen to some crappy "opinion" program, which is way too common during the hours I work.
So there you go. I just code while listening to that and my collection, which includes classical, alternative, soundtracks, and a LOT of metal. It's the loudness I love to have in my ears—letting me be partially present and partially absent while I search for the best way to do things. The way to be more efficient in everyday tasks comes from that mental state music generates. You become another version of yourself with music.
Or at least, the day doesn't feel like a slow-motion routine.
Maybe in that particular state of mind I reach while working concentrated and focused on results, there's no room for music that could distract me. I've heard awesome pieces, but every song on my playlist is there by design to keep me motivated and calm. In a certain way, you could say a playlist is also a declaration of expected behavior—and it's there to support it. The psychological helper of your own positive engine.
That's how it works for me. I could certainly find vast amounts of reasons to whine about most of them, but it's pointless. The real deal is to face that nothing is perfect. It's far from it, and it has an ugly side that we all know—some more than others, but we all know it.
I'm telling you this because far from being distracted from real-life issues and different realities, you hear them in the lyrics of every sound. And some of them are more than pop culture—they show a snapshot from the time that song was made.
Curious, right? But most are still valid today. Music is art. Art communicates that. It keeps you tuned in with people. Ultimately, it's my everlasting friend in good times and bad.
I feel a bit bugged when I see the classic bearded hipster-like image people imagine of some folks. Sometimes I'm one of them. I have a song for that...
The nice part about being with my music right now is that it keeps me in line with the most important thing: who I am. And that's all I want. I always feel that if I forget that, I'm going to lose a whole lot of what I call life in a single stroke.
Music is a big deal to me. It's a big deal for people in general. Some songs are a direct trigger that brings a good memory back to life. Others are there just to make the day feel like a normal day.
Since the beginning of time, we've been making music. In the beginning, maybe it was strong tribal percussion sounds. Or maybe they got it right from the start and were already making fusion and funk.
It's not about music itself, I tell myself every day. It's about where it takes me.